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...style of questioning were turned on himself, he would reply that he is a bachelor who shares an apartment with relatives in Tallinn, the Baltic port city that serves as Estonia's capital. "If I were a Russian, the only type of life for me would be in Moscow," he says. "But I am an Estonian, and the surroundings in Tallinn suit me." As for his salary, he is paid the equivalent of $320 for each broadcast. Ott considers playing tennis a "sacred activity." Not that he has much free time these days. A celebrity in his own right...
...Alma-Ata, capital of Kazakhstan, to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as the regional Communist Party head. Last July a group of Crimean Tatars protested in Moscow's Red Square, demanding the right to return to their hereditary homeland in the Crimea. In the Estonian capital of Tallinn last week, a march celebrating the 70th anniversary of Estonia's short-lived independence drew 20,000 people into the streets, according to emigre sources...
...John F. Kennedy International Airport. About two hours later Linnas was driven out onto the tarmac and led up a ramp to an Ilyushin Il-62M airliner bound for Prague. Officials from the Soviet Union took custody of him there and shipped him to the Estonian capital of Tallinn. Linnas was convicted in absentia and sentenced to death 25 years ago for running a Nazi death camp in Estonia during World War II. And now he had to face his fate...
Soviet interest in the Brest-Lorient region in northwestern France was cited in November 1983 by Brest Mayor Jacques Berthelot. He suspended a friendship agreement with the city of Tallinn in Estonia, saying Brest was becoming a key point for Soviet spying...
...aisle space was packed by the 2,000 worshipers, including a healthy number of teenagers. Two participants said they had traveled 2,000 miles from Central Asia for the event. Outside, dozens of people listened to Graham on the loudspeakers while a cold drizzle turned to heavy rain. In Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a remarkable overflow of 3,000 people stood in the streets outside the Baptist church. There were no loudspeakers this time, and police dispersed two-thirds of the devout. This week Graham moves on to Novosibirsk, the major city in Siberia, and completes the tour...